mayonaise_met @ mayonaise_met @feddit.nl

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*self-inflicted gunshot to the back of his head

We zijn natuurlijk een polderland. Op zich is er wel wat voor te zeggen met dit soort partijen te blijven praten als je gokken toestaat. Uiteraard nodig je ook behandelaars en preventieclubs uit. Maar op het punt van reclame hadden ze gewoon een streep in het zand moeten zetten voor de industrie.

Even los van het privacypunt zou ik wel graag een systeem zien waarbij er een bepaalde maximum komt voor wat consumenten spenderen aan zaken die maatschappelijk een negatieve impact hebben. Dat is voor alcohol, drugs en roken misschien wat lastig te organiseren, maar met online gokken had het uiteraard gekund omdat de legale markt nog niet bestond. Gewoon even een DigiD-check via een overheidsserver met je identiteit en het inlegbedrag die een go of no-go teruggeeft. Elke maand krijg je, zeg, €100 bestedingsruimte en als die op is dan wacht je maar gewoon tot de volgende maand.

If there is political will, there is a way. The problem is often political will.

What's the point of this whole platform if we're not exchanging experiences?

I know there there was a feeling by some back on Reddit that Europeans like pissing on the US without self-reflection. Maybe that is partly true, but you also don't read any of the self-reflections because chances they are in our native languages.

But for me personally I have considered moving to the US as a skilled worker, which if possible is a privileged position to begin with. I'm in a field that pays much better in the US so I am still envious of colleagues in the US making 1.5 to 2 times what I do. But I just don't love my job. I'm pretty good at parts of it, but I hate (read: am bad at) some other necessary parts of my job. So in the end my career options are somewhat limited. So yeah, there is probably a degree of cognitive dissonance involved.

Here is a list of things wrong with the Netherlands, just to balance shit

• Dutch childcare benefits scandal: Government falsely accused vulnerable citizens of fraud, leading to children being placed out of the house, bankruptcies, and even suicides
• Youth minimum wage (though being phased out)
• Labour exploitation through flexible contracts
• Terrible working and housing conditions for foreign slaughterhouse workers
• Nitrogen crisis
• Housing crisis, partly because of demographic developments (fewer people per house, slight growth through immigration) but now also because of the nitrogen crisis
• The government basically forced hundreds of asylum seekers to sleep outside last summer because of budget cuts which are probably popular with a certain constituency
• Earthquakes crisis in Groningen because of natural gas extraction, with a government turning a blind eye to people who saw the value of their houses tank because of structural damage

And that's before you get to all the things you could say for any developed western capitalist nation.

A continuous 30 day vacation is only 20 working days or so. In my country that's the government mandated minimum.

I think 25 or 30 workday paid vacation mandate is better for your mental health and productivity.

I actually get "unlimited" paid vacation days, which sounds like a bit of a shady practice. But I've already taken 30 days this year and I get absolutely no complaints. I'm planning on taking at least one more week this year.

I can't imagine not having any vacation days. America sounds nice and all if you're making 150k+ but I'd hate to work there at median income.

Ah, yes. I remember Jesus explaining this in the lecture on the mount.

Wait, what? I do live in the EU. I'll look this up tomorrow.

No more weights or are the weights of higher quality now?

Yeah I think I was paying €0.09 throughout a lot of the 2000s. I switched to WhatsApp in 2010 I think, when I got an iPhone.

Was WhatsApp ever on those late 2000s Nokia s Symbian phones?

We don't choose which app we use. Our friends, family, and colleagues do.

I could live with Signal's functionality, but there barely anybody there.

That's Limmy, not Lemmy.

Did it fall out of a window?

Sure. But I also professionally use a product that works better on Chrome (and Edge nowadays) so I'm lazy about it. Eventually I'll move to Firefox on my home PC. But in on my work PC and phone 95% of the time already so it's not going to make a huge dent.

Not when the thing is a weapon and you're buying it from a government.

They don't care about individual downloaders that much here and I genuinely don't use it that much.

Jokes on you. I don't have nipples.

I've got 1000/1000 fiber for €32, which I think is a pretty good deal in the Netherlands at the moment. I will go back to 100/100 for probably a similar amount after my contract is up as 1000/1000 is simply overkill for our use case. But who knows, maybe I'll find another deal.

It's not even 2.4 million USD. That's not nearly enough.

In my country torrent sites are blocked, so I use a search plugin for qBittorrent to find Linux ISOs. I don't quite remember which one I use or how I installed, but it was quite simple. Google is your friend.